From the Editors
Fattest States in U.S., Food Inc. Has Answers
A list where nobody wants to be #1: The fattest state rankings. Mississippi "wins," with 32.5% of adults and 44.4% of children considered obese, followed by West Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina. Colorado is the thinnest state. "I know, if you are like me, you are sick and tired of Alabama being waaayy down at the bottom of every listing of states and their accomplishments," jokes Left in Alabama. "Here's a list that ranks us near the top!" VivirLatino says we need to remember that "Beyond just the superficial 'you eat too much junk food' analysis, these statistics have everything to do with access to healthy food, education and everything that goes along with living in impoverished areas or belonging to a traditionally oppressed group." "What's wrong? The entire industrial food system based on corn and sugar and on treating animals really badly and OUR acceptance of this as being not only normal but desirable," writes Robert Paterson's Weblog.
Continue Reading Story »Best in Blogs: Measuring the MJ Aftershock; Franken Rising; Sanford Falling
Top Stories for the Week of June 29- July 3, 2009
There are plenty of ways to measure the impact of Michael Jackson. The extreme strain that news of his death put on the Internet is just the latest. "Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson's Death," TechCrunch reported. What Google mistook for a Denial of Service attack amid an epic spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was "a different kind of DoS: the Death of Superstar," says Changing Way. Google's chart of MJ-related queries on the day of his hospitalization and death looks like a tidal wave; the search service even snubbed some MJ news seekers, saying their frenzy resembled the persistence of malicious bot-a-matons. Yahoo News set an all-time record with 16.4 million visitors, beating the old record of 15.1 million set last election day, says SearchEngineLand. The Yahoo report, "Michael Jackson rushed to hospital,
" was the highest clicking story in Yahoo's history with "a whopping 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes" says Business Insider. Twitter was besieged. Nine of the 10 trending topics on Twitter were MJ-related. SEOMozBlog has a tick-tock-timeline of the online deluge, which blew up last Thursday when TMZ.com went live with the breaking news. An email and Twitter link to TMZ hit a high of almost 42 clicks a second. Meanwhile, Cover Awards has been gathering as many MJ magazine covers as it can find.
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